October 2008
Invaluable Fragments of Time
“All that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been, and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact. If I was ever actuated by ambition its highest and warmest aspiration reached no further than the […]
A Couple of Random Pictures
I regret that I didn’t get out more this past Thanksgiving weekend. We were out at a country fair most of Saturday, and while there we: watched horse-jumping went on rides let the kids try to win carnival games (my son won a guitar seconds after I told him that these games are rigged and […]
Stay Busy…Or Else
“Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not […]
Education Is…
Education Is… “…to be at home in all lands and all ages; to count Nature as a familiar acquaintance and Art an intimate friend; to gain a standard for the appreciation of other men’s work and the criticism of one’s own; to carry the keys of the world’s library in one’s pocket, and feel its […]
Ten Pointers
Ten Pointers: 1. Be yourself: cultivate desirable qualities. 2. Be alert: look for opportunities to express yourself. 3. Be positive: determine your goal and the route to it. 4. Be systematic: take one step at a time. 5. Be persistent: hold to your course. 6. Be a worker: work your brain more than your body. […]
The Most Beautiful Thing
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” -Albert Einstein See more quotes Type in […]
Celebrate the Solid Satisfactions of Such a Life
To find one’s work in the world and do it honorably, to keep one’s record clean so that nothing clandestine, furtive, surreptitious can ever leap out upon one from ambush and spoil one’s life, to be able, therefore, unafraid to look the world in the face, to live honorably also with one’s own soul because […]
Two Temples
A builder builded a temple, He wrought it with grace and skill; Pillars and groins and arches All fashioned to work his will. Men said, as they saw its beauty, “It shall never know decay; Great is thy skill, O builder! Thy fame shall endure for aye.” A mother builded a temple With loving and […]